Former Punjab director general of police Julio Ribeiro has today questioned the manner in which Khalistani terrorist Harminder Singh Mintoo managed to escape yesterday along with four others.

It was good that Harminder Singh Mintoo was caught today, he says. (ANI)

Former Punjab director general of police Julio Ribeiro has today questioned the manner in which Khalistani terrorist Harminder Singh Mintoo managed to escape yesterday along with four others. While congratulating Delhi Police for nabbing him earlier in the day, the former DGP expressed concern that the Nabha jailbreak was pre-planned.

He also observed that the dressing up of terrorists as cops is an old trick and should have been aanticipated but people had become complacent and did not do their duties properly. Speaking to ANI, Julio Ribeiro pointed out that the Khalistan movement was able to resurrect in Punjab on last two years because of drugs smuggling in the state.

The former Punjab DGP further said that it was good that Harminder Singh Mintoo was caught today, otherwise it would have been quite dangerous.

Earlier in the day, Delhi Police nabbed Khalistani terrorist Harminder Singh Mintoo. He along with four others Gurpreet Singh, Vicky Gondra, Nitin Deol and Vikramjeet Singh had escaped from the Nabha jail after armed men fired at least 100 rounds at prison authorities.

Yesterday one person was held in connection with the case and hlarge cache of arms were recovered from his car in Shamli in Uttar Pradesh. He was was wanted in at least 10 othet terror-related cases, which include 2008 attack on Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and recovery of explosives at Air Force station in Halwara two years later. Mintoo took over the reins of KLF in 2009 after leaving Wadhawa Singh-led Babbar Khalsa International (BKI). He was also wanted for planning killings of three Punjab Shiv Sena leaders.